Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Central London

Data Engineering
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 103 108
Rank change year-on-year +27 +5 +44
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 55 30 37
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.75% 1.29% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.03% 1.40% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 16 29
10th Percentile £328 £419 £417
25th Percentile £477 £460 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -11.54% +13.04%
75th Percentile £688 £691 £788
90th Percentile £841 £744 £840
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -1.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £22.00 -
London median hourly rate £70.25 £43.50 £38.97
% change year-on-year +61.49% +11.63% -48.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Data Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,818 2,147 2,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.76% 92.07% 89.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,272 1,344 1,757
10th Percentile £343 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £466 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £680 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £813
London median daily rate £530 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 27 16
10th Percentile £19.94 £18.34 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £28.32 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.57 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.09% +37.25% -37.04%
75th Percentile £36.00 £52.50 £51.31
90th Percentile £51.25 £112.00 £69.38
London median hourly rate £31.49 £36.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -12.53% +5.88% -12.54%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Central London

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Data Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Central London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in Central London

Data Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Data Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineering within the Central London region over the 6 months to 19 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +13 46 £575 - 19
Data Engineering
London

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 14 (25.45%) Apache Spark
2 9 (16.36%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (9.09%) Apache
4 1 (1.82%) Confluence
4 1 (1.82%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 23 (41.82%) AWS
1 23 (41.82%) Azure
2 21 (38.18%) Power Platform
3 11 (20.00%) GCP
4 10 (18.18%) Snowflake
5 9 (16.36%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (10.91%) dbt
7 5 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (7.27%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (3.64%) Azure Functions
9 2 (3.64%) Serverless
10 1 (1.82%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.82%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.82%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (1.82%) Azure Storage
10 1 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.82%) Fivetran
10 1 (1.82%) GitHub
10 1 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (38.18%) Power BI
2 11 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (20.00%) Tableau
3 7 (12.73%) Data Lake
4 6 (10.91%) Big Data
5 5 (9.09%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (7.27%) NoSQL
7 3 (5.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (5.45%) Delta Lake
7 3 (5.45%) Metadata
7 3 (5.45%) MySQL
8 2 (3.64%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (3.64%) Hadoop
8 2 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (3.64%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.82%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.82%) Spotfire
9 1 (1.82%) Star Schema
9 1 (1.82%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 11 (20.00%) Git
2 6 (10.91%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.64%) MLflow
4 1 (1.82%) GitLab
4 1 (1.82%) JIRA
General
1 23 (41.82%) Finance
2 12 (21.82%) Social Skills
3 10 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (18.18%) Banking
4 5 (9.09%) Front Office
5 4 (7.27%) Back Office
6 3 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.64%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 21 (38.18%) Data Engineer
2 7 (12.73%) Developer
3 6 (10.91%) Architect
4 5 (9.09%) Lead
4 5 (9.09%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 4 (7.27%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Snowflake Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) AWS Data Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Data Scientist
7 2 (3.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Lead Data Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Product Owner
7 2 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.64%) Technical Leader
8 1 (1.82%) Banking Business Analyst
8 1 (1.82%) Data Consultant
8 1 (1.82%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.36%) PySpark
1 9 (16.36%) PyTorch
2 8 (14.55%) TensorFlow
3 7 (12.73%) Kafka
3 7 (12.73%) scikit-learn
4 3 (5.45%) Dask
4 3 (5.45%) Google JAX
4 3 (5.45%) JAX
4 3 (5.45%) LightGBM
4 3 (5.45%) XGBoost
5 2 (3.64%) LangChain
5 2 (3.64%) NumPy
5 2 (3.64%) Pandas
6 1 (1.82%) JSON
6 1 (1.82%) Matplotlib
6 1 (1.82%) Middleware
6 1 (1.82%) Ray
6 1 (1.82%) Seaborn
6 1 (1.82%) XML
6 1 (1.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.73%) Algorithms
2 5 (9.09%) Derivative
3 4 (7.27%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (7.27%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.45%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (5.45%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.64%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.64%) Equities
5 2 (3.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.64%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.82%) Autonomous Agent
6 1 (1.82%) Clustering
6 1 (1.82%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.82%) Replication
6 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.82%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (40.00%) Analytics
1 22 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
1 22 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
2 18 (32.73%) Data Modelling
3 17 (30.91%) Machine Learning
4 16 (29.09%) Data Governance
5 15 (27.27%) ETL
6 14 (25.45%) AI
6 14 (25.45%) CI/CD
7 12 (21.82%) Agile
7 12 (21.82%) Data Science
8 11 (20.00%) Data Integration
9 10 (18.18%) DevOps
10 8 (14.55%) Data Architecture
10 8 (14.55%) Data Transformation
10 8 (14.55%) Visualisation
11 7 (12.73%) Decision-Making
11 7 (12.73%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (10.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 31 (56.36%) Python
2 27 (49.09%) SQL
3 8 (14.55%) Scala
4 3 (5.45%) R
5 2 (3.64%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.82%) C#
6 1 (1.82%) C++
6 1 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.82%) IronPython
6 1 (1.82%) Java
6 1 (1.82%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (12.73%) Degree
2 6 (10.91%) SC Cleared
2 6 (10.91%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.27%) Azure Certification
4 3 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.64%) DBS Check
5 2 (3.64%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.82%) MCP
6 1 (1.82%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (25.45%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.27%) GDPR
3 2 (3.64%) QA
4 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.82%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.82%) NIST
4 1 (1.82%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.09%) Terraform
2 4 (7.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (32.73%) Databricks
2 5 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.82%) Google
3 1 (1.82%) Oracle
3 1 (1.82%) SAP
3 1 (1.82%) Workday